Includes correspondence, financial material, legal material, office files, and maps and
charts accumulated from the Three Oaks, Michigan, office of E. K. Warren and Son. The
collection deals primarily with the financial and legal aspects of Warren's ranching
interests in Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Of particular interest are records
dealing with depredations suffered by company ranches in Mexico during the Mexican
Revolution of 1910. For further details, click here: EKWarren.
Manufacturers of buggy whips and corset stays, the company was founded by Edward K.
Warren, who also invested in Southwestern Land and Cattle through the influence of his
son, Charles K. Warren.

E. S. Graham Company
Records, 1839-1946
79,501 leaves

Contains correspondence, financial, legal and advertising material, photographs, and
miscellaneous material. The collection bulks (1839-1941) with correspondence dealing with
both business and family matters. Letters are divided into letters received and letters
sent. Of special interest are photographs dating from the 1890s.
A diversified company with interests in sheep and cattle ranching, farming, coal mining,
and land sales, the E. S. Graham Company was established in 1870. Land sales were the
primary business of the company and were based on lands originally part of the Texas
Emigration and Land Company properties. E. S. Graham purchased land in Young County and
moved to Texas in 1869 to serve as an agent for the Texas Emigration and Land Company. He
then formed his own company which was later managed by his sons and grandsons.

Earnest, Ara Hurst
Papers, 1907-1949
54 leaves

The collection includes photographs (ca. 1907) depicting the Earnest and Hurst families
and a 1949 commencement program for Texas Technological College.
Born in 1890 in Brown County, Texas, Earnest's family moved to Yoakum County, Texas, in
1903. She married a rancher in 1908 and lived near Plains, Texas. The couple also lived in
Panhandle, Lubbock, and Odessa, Texas.

Contains genealogical information of Mrs. Earnest's family and an 1867 diary of a trip
taken by William Koock to Germany and Mexico.
Earnest was related to the Hofman and the Koock families who operated the Hofman Dry Goods
Store in Mason, Texas.

Consists of legal and financial reports from the East Grand Plains Drainage District to
the Chaves County Commissioners Court.
Named for the community of East Grand Plains, the District is one of several water
drainage districts in the Roswell Artesian Basin in Chaves County, New Mexico.

Consists of photographs and articles concerning East Sweden, Texas.
East Sweden, Texas was established in McCulloch County around 1885 by Swedish colonists.

Easter, Edith
Papers, 1890-1923
52 leaves, 1 item

Includes correspondence, postcards, high school commencement notices, and wedding
announcements.
Mrs. Easter was a pioneer resident of Lorenzo, Texas.

Eastlake, William
Papers, ca. 1963
229 leaves

Contains a typed and corrected manuscript of Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six
Horses, published by Simon & Schuster (1963).
An author and lecturer, Eastlake was born in 1917 in New York City and attended college in
Paris, France. He published numerous novels, stories, and articles, which have been
translated into thirteen foreign languages. His books include The Bronc People
(1958), Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses (1963), and Dancers in the
Scalp House (1975). Eastlake also served as lecturer at the University of New Mexico
and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Southern California.

Easton, Robert Olney
Papers, ca. 1963
150 leaves

Contains photocopied manuscript (ca. 1963) of Part Seven of The Book of the American
West, entitled "Guns of the American West."
An actor, author, and educator, Easton was born in 1930 in California and educated at
Harvard. His work has appeared in numerous magazine and anthologies. His books include Lord
of the Beasts: The Saga of Buffalo Jones (1961), and Max Brand: The Big Westerner
(1970). Easton also served as a faculty member of Santa Barbara City College.

The collection bulks with a manuscript of Post City, Texas, and includes
research notes and a financial document.
Eaves was an original Texas Technological College faculty member where he taught history
from 1925 until his retirement in 1959. Eaves wrote his dissertation on C. W. Post, the
founder of Post, Texas. C. A. Hutchinson, of the University of Virginia, prepared Dr.
Eaves' dissertation for publication, conducting further research into the Double U Company
and C. W. Post. The manuscript was published as Post City, Texas by the Texas State
Historical Association in 1952.

Eberhardt, Jack
Collection, 1964
136 leaves

Consists of a 1964 Presidential election folder prepared for a social
studies class, which contains brochures, newsclippings and other items on the election
campaign.
Jack Eberhardt's son, Jimmy, created a 1964-election folder as part of a school social
studies project. Lubbock County voted overwhelmingly for Lyndon B. Johnson in that
election.
Ecumenical Council on Social Concerns (Lubbock County, Texas)Records, 1968-1970
81 leaves

Contains correspondence, minutes, printed material, and reports
pertaining to the Ecumenical Council. The collection bulks (1968-1970) with correspondence
dealing with the social concerns of Lubbock, Texas.
A non-denominational council, the Lubbock council is concerned with public school
desegregation, open housing, and educational equal opportunity in Lubbock, Texas.

Includes Douglas Coalson's 1941 manuscript on the history of the firm,
articles and pamphlets on correcting visual difficulties in reading, manuals for reading
machines, and brochures and programs on the Washington Square Reading Center of New York
City.
Educational Laboratories, Inc. of Brownwood, Texas, was founded in the early 1930s and
manufactured classroom reading equipment, which was invented by J. Lantis Taylor. A.
Edward Lamb experimented with the new equipment in his Texas classroom.
Educational Laboratories, Incorporated
Records, 1933-1942
1 wallet (0.1 linear feet)

Collection concerns the financial affairs of the Educational
Laboratories, Inc. of Brownwood, Texas.
Educational Laboratories, Inc. developed eye-testing equipment for speed reading which was
used in the Brownwood schools for a time. It later sold out to American Optical Company.
Douglas Coalson, Secretary-Treasurer of the Walker-Smith Company, was the major
stockholder.
Edwards, BrucePapers, 1844-1963, and undated
1 wallet (0.1 linear feet)

Item is a diary of Edward's great-great grandfather
or great-great-great grandfather detailing reminiscences of his activities.

Edwards, Caswell OvertonPapers, 1910
644 leaves

Consists of an abstract of title concerning land ownership of the T-Bar
Ranch, Lynn County, Texas, from 1880-1910. Prepared by the Texas Title Company of Fort
Worth, Texas, the abstract also contains records for the Lone Star Real Estate and
Colonization Company.
Edwards was born in 1851 in Tarrant County, Texas. He took over management of the family's
farm and ranch after the death of his father. In 1875, he purchased a ranch in Brown
County, Texas, then moved to Lynn County, Texas, in 1883 and organized the Tahoka Cattle
Company with Jasper Hayes and Colonel W. C. Young. Later, Edwards organized the C. O.
Edwards and Son Cattle Company and operated the T-Bar Ranch in Lynn County, Texas.
Edwards, S. B.Family papers, 1859-1917
61 leaves

The collection bulks with tax receipts, including poll, state, county,
and confederate taxes. Also included is a receipt for power of attorney, and a brief
literary production.
S. B. Edwards, a farmer, lived in Callahan County, Texas (ca. 1905-1916). B. W. Edwards
lived in Washington County, Texas (1871-1877), Comanche County, Texas (1888), and Callahan
County, Texas (1890-1902). Edward P. Elliot lived in Washington County, Texas (1859-1867).
Edwards, Wildring
Papers, undated
1 wallet (0.1 linear feet)

Consists of three sets of notes taken by Wildring Edwards for the class,
Food and Nutrition 131 offered in 1937 at Texas Technological College.

Photocopied probate records
(1840-1847) from Gonzales County, Texas which detail property and their values from
several wills.Also include photocopied
abstracts (1845-1917) dealing with the six leagues of land known as the El Capote Ranch in
Gonzales County and legal material (1834-1877), including
deed records and the will of Jose de la Baume, and correspondence (1845-1913) from the Erskine
family, diaries and maps.

The Capote Ranch refers to the Jose de la Baumes ranch originally located 45 miles
northeast of San Antonio.Jose a French
immigrant had built a log cabin which was relocated and restored on the Ranching Heritage
Center in 1975.It was provided by Wallace
and Maurice Harrell of the Harrell Cattle Company.Gonzales
County, Texas located in South Texas was created in 1836 and organized in 1837.It was named after Coahuila y Texas Governor
Rafael Gonzales.Its county seat is Gonzales.The area was among the first to be settled by an
Anglo-American settlement known as the DeWitt Colony late in the 1820s.It main economy is agribusiness.
El Paso, Texas
Collection, 1952-1966 and undated
1 wallet (0.1 linear feet)

Collection contains pamphlets and brochures on
lifestyles and attractions in El Paso, Texas. El Paso, Texas was settled in 1632,
but the modern city known today was built in 1881 with the coming of the railroads.
El Paso Valley Cotton Association (Texas)
Records, 1953-1966
2,103 leaves

Consists of correspondence, printed material, and
scrapbook material concerning the Maid of Cotton contests and the Bracero labor
program.
This was an association of cotton farmers concerned with the promotion
of cotton in the Texas counties of El Paso, Hudspeth, and Culberson. The association
sponsored the area's Maid of Cotton contest and also handled the contracting of farm labor
through the Bracero program from 1955-1965. The program was designed by Mexican
president, Manuel Avila Comacho and U.S. president, Franklin Roosevelt to allow Mexican
laborers (braceros) to serve as agricultural workers in the southwestern United
States during World War II. In 1943, the program was expanded to include non-agricultural
labor as well. In all, over 300,000 Mexicans participated in the program.
Eldorado Hardware Company (Eldorado, Texas)Records, 1911-1966
25,018 leaves

Contains correspondence, financial material, lists, legal material, and
printed material concerning the business activities of the Eldorado Hardware Company in
Eldorado, Texas. The collection bulks with business correspondence and financial material.
The business was opened in 1910 by Ernest Hill and his father, D. C. Hill. In 1930, Ernest
Hill became sole proprietor and managed the store until his death in 1968.
Ellebracht, PatPapers, 1970-2001, and undated
1 box (0.4 linear feet)

Collection of mostly transcripts of various interviews conducted by
Mr. Pat Ellebracht such as Charles Merritt and H. Ross Perot.Also includes a manuscript entitled "Eastland
County, Texas: Its Colorful Past, 1917-1929" written by Mr. Ellebracht.
Also story on "The Santa Claus Bank Robbery" which occurred in Cisco, Texas on
December 22, 1927.

Mr. Pat Ellebracht was raised in Mason County, Texas.He graduated with a MBA from Texas Tech University in 1954.He was a professor of business at Northwest
Missouri State University (now Truman State University) for 29 years.He retired in 1996.

Elliot, RaymondPapers, 1955-1971
823 leaves

Consists of literary productions by Elliot pertaining
to music education, including the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions of Fundamentals of Music. An educator and author, Elliot was born in 1904 in Cleburne, Texas.
He served on the music faculty at Texas Tech University (1950-1969), and served
intermittently as the chairman of music education. Elliot is the author of several books
and articles on music education.

Elliot, RaymondPapers, 1984-1993 and undated
1 box (0.3 linear feet)

Collection contains written articles by Dr. Raymond Elliott on a
mixture of music and Christianity.Dr.
Elliott is Professor Emeritus at Texas Tech University.He has written music and commentaries on Christianity.

Elliott, Morris F.Papers, 1916-1956
2 microfilm reels : negative

Includes Bishop Cecil Seaman's correspondence with Emmanuel Church,
histories of the church, an obituary on Mrs. William L. Black, miscellaneous material on
Reverend Edward Henry La Touche Earle, and resolutions.
Elliott was a longtime pastor of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in San Angelo, Texas. A native
of Philadelphia, Elliott received his B. D. degree from Virginia Theological Seminary
(Alexandria) in 1936 and assumed Emmanuel's pastorate in 1949. He died May 8, 1984, and
was survived by his wife, Margaret Anna, and a daughter, Mrs. Barbara Ann Ricketts.
Ellis, Temple AnnPapers, ca. 1939
120 leaves

Consists entirely of literary productions and bulks with a manuscript
copy of Road to Destiny. Also includes two poems written by Ellis, which were
donated to the collection by William Curry Holden.
A West Texas author, Ellis is the writer of several essays on the history of Lubbock and
Lubbock County, Texas. She also co-authored A History of Crosby County, with her
sister-in-law, Nellie Witt Spikes.
Ellison, HubertPapers, 1997
1 wallet (0.1 linear feet)

Contains a manuscript titled Memoirs of Hubert Ellison
written by Hubert Ellison and Lois Terry in 1997.Lois
Terry is the daughter of Hubert Ellison.Mr.
Ellison was born on February 11, 1901 and died in March 23, 1995.Mr. Ellisons family came from Acworth,
Georgia and later moved to Oklahoma to the South Plains in Texas.The Memoirs discuss Mr. Ellisons
recollections of the familys pioneer days during the 19th and 20th
centuries.

Includes and bulks (1878-1919) with financial
material concerning Isaac L. Ellwood, of DeKalb, Illinois, and William L. Ellwood, of
Lubbock, Texas, and their business activities. Also includes legal materials and
correspondence, primarily concerning debt collections, and business affairs. For
further details, click here: IEllwood.
Co-inventor and manufacturer of barbed wire, businessman, and land
owner, Ellwood was born in 1833 in New York. With his sons, William L. and Erwin P., he
began purchasing Texas ranch lands in 1889, including the Spade and Renderbrook ranches.
After his death in 1910, his sons, along with A. W. Fisk, managed the estate. Beginning in
1924, portions of the Spade Ranch were sold for farming and colonization.
Ellwood Estates
Records, 1860-1966
58,268 leaves

Contains correspondence, financial and legal
material, photographs, printed material, and scrapbook material concerning the business
operations of Ellwood Estates and the Ellwood family. The collection bulks (1878-1966)
with financial material relating to Ellwood's ranching operations during his life time and
the sale of farm properties after his death. For further details, click here: Ellwood.
Ellwood Estates was formed in 1910 after the death of Isaac L. Ellwood
(1833-1910). Ellwood, co-inventor and manufacturer of barbed wire, purchased the Spade
Ranch (located in Lubbock, Hale, Hockley, and Lamb counties, Texas) in 1891, and the
Renderbrook Ranch (located in Mitchell County, Texas) in 1889. The Ellwood Estates were
formed from these ranch properties and were administered by Ellwood's sons, William L.
(1859-1933) and Erwin P. (1874-?), and A. W. Fisk. Beginning in 1924, the Ellwoods sold
portions of the Spade Ranch for farming and colonization.
Ellwood Farms
Records, 1900-1967
ca. 237,000 leaves

The collection bulks with land sales records of the
Ellwood Land Company containing deeds, abstracts, liens, correspondence, tax statements,
mineral rights deeds, loan applications, foreclosure notices, right of way deeds, and oil
leases. Also included are records of other land-related companies, including the
Ropesville Farms Project (also called the Ropesville Resettlement project), and the Spade
Land Company. For further details, click here: Ellwood2.
Formed in 1924 after the death of Isaac L. Ellwood (1833-1910),
co-inventor and manufacturer of barbed wire, who purchased the Spade Ranch in 1891 and the
Renderbrook Ranch in 1889. In 1924, the Ellwood Farm Company began selling farm-size plots
of Spade Ranch land. The business, based in Lubbock, Texas, for over forty years, was
administered by William L. and Erwin P. Ellwood, sons of Isaac L. Ellwood, and by R. C.
Hopping and T. B. Zellner. In 1946, the Spade Land Company purchased a portion of the
Ellwood Farms land and operated it as the Ellwood Farm Company.

Collection of membership booklets
from the Emlea Smith Junior Study Club of Morton, Texas from 1962-1972.Also includes a booklet from the Texas
Womens Bowling Association 50th Anniversary (1985).

The Emlea Smith Junior Study Club of Morton, Texas is affiliated with the State and
General Federation of Womens Clubs in Texas.This
study club is from the Caprock District.They
encourage fund raising for their local towns and contribute to hospitals and schools.

Consists of ten scrapbooks concerning the Emmanuel Episcopal Church and
its history, activities, and parishioners. Scrapbooks contain newsclippings,
correspondence, programs, brochures, magazines, manuscripts, and miscellaneous and
research notes.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church began in 1884, largely through the efforts of a Ladies Guild
which raised funds to purchase the lots for the original church building. The original
church was designed by Oscar Ruffini and completed in 1888. It was replaced in 1927 with a
stone structure.
Energy InformationCollection, 1960s-1990s
80 boxes (80 linear feet)

Collection of printed material composed of news releases, news clippings, other
publications, and pamphlets pertaining to energy resources and the energy industry in the
State of Texas and City of Houston.It also
relates to energy resources found throughout the world.

For
further details, click here: Energy.
The collection was managed by the W. I. Dykes Library of the University of
Houston-Downtown.It was used by patrons
researching information on the energy industry.Energy
has played a major role in society and human evolution for thousands of years.In the 20th Century, energy resources such as oil,
water, gas not to mention lesser sources such as wind and solar have effect the economy
world wide.Energy resources have the
potential tomake or break an industrial nation.

Engdahl, Mrs. GeorgePapers, 1964
1 microfilm reel (11 ft.) : negative

Includes genealogical and scrapbook material concerning the Widen,
Peterson and Engdahl families.
Mrs. Engdahl is the wife of George Engdahl, stock farmer and amateur historian near Brady,
Texas, who is descended from Swedish immigrants who founded the community of East Sweden,
Texas.
English, O.W.Collection, 1869-1988
3 boxes (3 linear feet)

The collection contains a wide range
of personal and professional materials belonging to pioneer physician, Dr. O.W.
Babe English and/or his family.Included
are booklets, correspondence, religious publications, educational materials, newspaper
clippings, souvenirs of trips, and financial documents. For further details, click
here: English.
Dr. O.W. Babe English came to Lubbock, Texas in 1926 and established his
medical practice downtown, in the old Myrick Building.He remained active in Lubbock medicine for the next 50 years and served on
the staffs of the citys major hospitals.He
owned the Two-Buckle Ranch in Crosby County.He
served in both World Wars and was a prominent Lubbock civic leader.He was appointed to several offices in
professional organizations.Dr. English died
in 1990.

Includes correspondence, charts, legal documents, photographs, literacy
manuscripts, and printed items used in researching the history of the Kentucky Cattle
Company, founder of the Two-Buckle Ranch.
English is married to Dr. Otis W. English, who purchased with his father, the Two-Buckle
Ranch in Blanco Canyon near Crosbyton, Texas.
Erskine, MichaelPapers, 1830-1913
1 microfilm reel (30 ft.) : negative

Includes correspondence, legal and financial documents, diaries and
literary productions concerning Michael Erskine and his family and the El Capote Ranch. A
log cabin from the ranch was moved to the Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech
University.
Born near Union, West Virginia, on January 9, 1794, Erskine married Agnus D. Haynes in
1817 and they had 10 children. They engaged in farming in Alabama and Mississippi before
moving to Texas in 1839. In 1840, he purchased the De la Baume (Capote) Ranch on the
Guadalupe River near Seguin. He served as Guadalupe County's first chief justice and, in
1854, drove a herd of cattle to California under military escort. Erskine profited greatly
from the cattle business and again, in 1861, drove a herd of cattle to New Orleans. He
died on the return trip at New Iberia, Louisiana, on May 15, 1862. Two of his sons, Andrew
Nelson and Alexander Madison, served in the Confederate Army. Andrew was killed at
Antietam on September 17, 1862.
Espuela Land and Cattle Company, Ltd.
Records, 1880-1979
31,711 leaves

Consists of correspondence, legal documents,
financial records and journals. The collection bulks (1885-1909) with financial records
relating to the operation of the Spur Ranch. The correspondence includes several letters
from leading ranchers, and the journals detail the daily routine of ranching. For
further details, click here: Spur.
The Espuela Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., a British syndicate, founded
the Spur Ranch in the early 1880s. The ranch was located in Dickens, Kent, Crosby, and
Garza counties of West Texas and encompassed approximately 439,000 acres.
Estacado, TexasCollection, 1888-1975; Papers
2 wallets (0.2 linear feet)

Consists of correspondence, legal material, literary productions, and
scrapbook material pertaining to the settlement and history of Estacado, Crosby County,
Texas. Of particular interest are accounts of early frontier life on the Texas South
Plains.
Established in 1878 by Quaker colonists led by Paris Cox, this was the first Anglo
settlement in Crosby County, Texas, and was the original county seat of Crosby County. The
population of 600 declined after the county seat was moved to Emma in 1891, and by 1895,
after the Quakers moved to Friendswood (Brazoria County, Texas), the colony was disbanded.
Estelline State Bank (Estelline, Texas)Records, 1905-1933
7,851 leaves

Consists of financial materials including loan registers, ledgers, and
reconciliation records. Also included are minute books, reports of the board of directors,
charters, and statements of condition.
The town of Estelline, Hall County, Texas, was established in the early 1890s and became a
prominent shipping point on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad. The bank was
organized in 1906, with Bob Green as president and E. L. Biggerstaff as cashier. The bank
closed in 1929.
Ethridge, Don E.
Papers, 1991
1 wallet (0.1 linear feet)

Collection contains three research papers written by Professor Ethridge.
Dr. Ethridge is a professor of Agricultural Economics at Texas Tech University.

Includes correspondence, receipts, financial and legal
material, an autograph album, photographs, and a printed item. Legal and financial
material concerns the Dunagan family, whereas the other materials pertain to the
Campbells.
Mrs. Evans is the daughter of J. P. Dunagan and Lou (Campbell) Dunagan. Both the Dunagan
and Campbell families were early residents of Olney, Texas.